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> Even with perfect scaling, you would need at least 4 separate Ryzen 5500 machines to have a chance at beating a single 7950X for CPU-bound tasks.

According to Geekbench [0] you only need 3. [0] https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks/




That’s still 3 separate motherboards, 3 separate cases, 3 separate power supplies, 3 separate sets of RAM, 3 machines idling instead of one, etc.




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